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Old 09-03-2004, 02:04 PM   #1
ghouliajoolia
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automount Solaris home directories onto RedHat


I have a Solaris server that holds our user's home directories. I am slowly learing more and more about linux.

My office is considering replacing several old Sun workstation with Linux PC's. Is it possible to automount Solaris home directories onto Linux or does this cause a lot of problems? I'd like to continue to use the Solaris server, but I dont know how compatible these two OS's are. Mainly Solaris and RedHat.

What is the most secure way to accomplish this?

Im not so worried about passwords, as in the near future we will be migrating from NIS to LDAP, but it seems a waste not to be able to use the disk space on the Sun.

Thanks for your time and thoughts.
 
Old 09-03-2004, 03:05 PM   #2
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To make sure I understand your question correctly, you want to boot up on RedHat on but mount the harddrive on the solairs system? I.e. share the hardrivers over a network?

If so than you can use NFS, and it will run perfectly.

Andrew
 
Old 09-03-2004, 04:30 PM   #3
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I know what you are asking ghouliajoolia. Linux uses almost the exact same model as Sun does. I am using Fedora on my desktop. I uncommented the line

/net /etc/auto.net

in /etc/auto.master and restarted autofs. This, just as in Solaris, created /net and mapped everything that returns from showmount. I would assume that you could map home directories just as you do under Solaris with /etc/auto_home, but have not tried it. I would just specify it in /etc/auto.master.

As far as security, I have seen docs floating around on tunneling nfs through ssh. I have not set it up, but imagine it would not be too painstaking minus the performance hit for encryption.
 
Old 09-07-2004, 06:20 AM   #4
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NLR..I want to use YP services and also automount the user's home directory onto the linux box. The YP server and home directories are on my SUN/Solaris server. The home directories are backed up every night so it would be good to be able to have the user's put their data there.

Scissors..yes...you understood me correctly. I have messed around with the automount files..but so far I haven't been successful. I have not tried uncommenting the line /net /etc/auto.net. I'll try that this morning.

Hm....tunneling nfs through ssh, that sounds interesting. I'll have to check it out. Im sure that would make our security folks a bit happier.

Thanks!!!
 
  


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